When the Child Was a Child: A Memoir of My Body

Jan Grue is the author of a wide-ranging body of work in fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and academic literature. When the Child Was a Child was published in 2018 in Norway, where it won the Literary Critics’ Award and was nominated to the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, the first Norwegian nonfiction book to be so honored in fifty years. Grue holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Oslo, where he is a professor of qualitative research.

Becky L. Crook is a writer and literary translator. In 2010, she founded SAND, an English literary journal, in Berlin. She led creative writing workshops in the Netherlands for two years before returning to the United States. Between translation projects, she recently finished writing her own first novel. She lives with her family on an island near Seattle.